Android 9 Piehas been out for a month , and while the gain of thing like digital health control and ready to hand app actions have made Google ’s mobile OS friendly to use , I ca n’t aid but recollect one of Android 9 ’s most dazzling omission is the lack of an OS - wide dark mood .
Dark mode UIs help prevent you from being blinded when checking your phone at night , and if you have a earpiece with an AMOLED concealment , they may even help extend the twist ’s battery lifespan . That ’s why a lot of big third - party apps like Twitter , Twitch , and Discord number with dark - themed UIs , with even a handful of Google - made apps like Google Weather pop the question a melanize - out interface .
But in a unusual turn of result , when Google settle to tot a dark-skinned motif to YouTube , background YouTube got it first , with YouTube for iOS following not far behind . And then for months , there was nothing .
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Now , all of a sudden , it seems YouTube for Android has finally generate the call in version 13.35.51 with a disconsolate theme on-off switch that should help make unnecessary your eye at nighttime .
Unfortunately , YouTube ’s drab theme on Android use a very dark grey background instead of everlasting black , which would be the best option for extend battery biography , because when you expose staring black on AMOLED screens , the equipment can literally turn those pixels off to save superpower .
On the bright side , the disconsolate theme stage setting is super promiscuous to deform on . All you have to do is solicit your visibility icon in the top rightfulness , select the “ scope ” option , and then simply tap the toggle switch to enable YouTube ’s dark theme . The only turn of worry I had with the whole process was get the non-white theme toggle switch to actually show up , which was quickly pay off by personnel close YouTube a few time after I update the app .
Sadly, even though my phone has a dark mode skin, dark-themed YouTube still forces a white nav bar.Screenshot: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)
But the real Leslie Townes Hope , now that YouTube finally has a sinister mode across the board , is that Google starts to do this for other major apps or even Android itself . After all , Windows 10 has a drear fashion , the beta edition macOS Mojave has a moody modality . It ’s prison term for Android to get with the programme .
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